Lockeridge
Lockeridge photos (10 available)
Lockeridge maps (2 available)
Map of Wiltshire
Beautifully hand-drawn and coloured, dating from around 1840
Personalised maps
Create an historic map centred directly on any postcode!
Lockeridge books (14 available)
- 1 photos on Lockeridge appear in 1 Frith books - View photos of Lockeridge
- Read extracts and see photos from these books on Lockeridge and Wiltshire
Lockeridge memories
Read and share memories of Lockeridge and Wiltshire inspired by Frith photos
Lockeridge School
Whilst researching my family history I have found several photographs of classes at Lockeridge School 1915. It could be my mother Dorothy Mortimore with standard 11.
Contributed by Jill Brill
Wiltshire memories
Lockeridge School
Whilst researching my family history I have found several photographs of classes at Lockeridge School 1915. It could be my mother Dorothy Mortimore with standard 11.
A memory of Lockeridge contributed by Jill Brill
Where is this cottage?
Does anyone know whereabouts in West Overton this cottage was and whether it is still standing.
Wartime Marlborough
Sent out of London during the Blitz with my mother, grandmother and sister, a visit to the Polly Tea Rooms was for special occasions only. We loved it when the parents of the boys from Marlborough School came to visit and brought their sons to Polly's for tea (even though we were only 5 or 6!). Happily, the tea rooms are still there, whilst the Merlin on the other side and at the other end of the High Street has disappeared.
A memory of Marlborough contributed by jill edison
Extracts From Lockeridge & Wiltshire books
The Dene, now a conservation
area, is a fascinating place where
sarsens appear to grow out of
the ground. In fact these huge
blocks slithered down the sides
of the hills after the last ice age,
and have sometimes been mis-
taken for resting sheep. It is this
place and Clatford Bottom near-
by that were the likely sources of
stone for the Avebury Circle.
An extract from from"Marlborough Photographic Memories".
This is the centre of the
village; we are looking
north to West Overton
County Primary School
with its toothed ridge
line and bell tower just
visible over it. To the
right is the thatched
Myrtle Cottage. This
17th-century listed
sarsen and brick dwell-
ing shows the fast-
disappearing type of
long straw thatch, which
was sewed all along the
edges like a garment.
An extract from from"Marlborough Photographic Memories".
This is a typical lodge house
of the Ailesbury Estate variety;
it bears Gothic features such
as the ornate barge-boards
and detailing to the eaves.
This lodge has fish-scale tiles
that were popular in the later
19th century. Labourers work-
ing nearby have obviously
been drafted in to add a rustic
charm to the picture.
An extract from from"Marlborough Photographic Memories".
This fine old 17th-
century farmhouse, built
in a mixture of materials,
stone, brick, tile-hanging
and long straw thatch,
is typical of the area
around Marlborough.
It was known as Brown’s
by 1718. By the middle
of the 20th century it
was being used as an
outhouse, and it was
demolished in 1961–2
to make way for more
modern farm buildings.
An extract from from"Marlborough Photographic Memories".
We are looking towards
Back Lane. This is a street
mainly of 16th- or 17th-
century timber-framed
cottages. In the garden of
No 2, on the bottom left of
the picture, a plague pit was
found with the remains of
five skeletons, a legacy of
the Black Death in 1348-
9. The lady wearing a flat
cap looks like she means business!
An extract from from"Marlborough Photographic Memories".